US states by greenhouse gas emissions from commercial buildings and waste (EPA state inventory), 2022

California had the highest greenhouse gas emissions from commercial buildings and waste (EPA state inventory) of 51 states in 2022, at 40.11 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent. District of Columbia had the lowest, at 1.11 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent. The median was 6.17 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent. Source: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Highest40.11California

Lowest1.11District of Columbia

Median6.1751 states

All states, 2022

million tonnes of CO2 equivalent. Source: EPA state greenhouse gas inventory, EPA greenhouse gas inventory by state: Commercial economic sector, million metric tons of CO2 equivalent. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	States	2022 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent	Change on 2021
1	California	40.11	+1.9%
2	Texas	33.78	+2.1%
3	New York	30.07	+2.7%
4	Illinois	23.24	+6.6%
5	Ohio	22.93	+3.7%
6	Florida	20.55	+2%
7	Michigan	20.3	+5.3%
8	Pennsylvania	17.85	+5.1%
9	North Carolina	14.14	+11.9%
10	New Jersey	13.92	+3%
11	Georgia	13.77	+1.8%
12	Virginia	12.04	+2.3%
13	Indiana	11.28	+5%
14	Wisconsin	10.41	+10%
15	Minnesota	10.38	+14.7%
16	Massachusetts	10.38	+9.2%
17	Washington	8.83	+4.9%
18	Tennessee	8.69	+1.9%
19	Maryland	8.29	+7%
20	Missouri	8.15	+0.9%
21	Colorado	7.68	+3.5%
22	Alabama	7.67	+3.3%
23	Iowa	7.06	+21.5%
24	Arizona	6.82	+4.4%
25	Kentucky	6.36	+3.5%
26	Oklahoma	6.17	+3.2%
27	Louisiana	6.07	-0.5%
28	Arkansas	6.02	-1.3%
29	South Carolina	5.68	+2.2%
30	Connecticut	5.33	+2.7%
31	Kansas	5.25	+5.7%
32	Utah	5.07	+5.5%
33	Oregon	4.69	+5%
34	Mississippi	3.85	+2.6%
35	Nebraska	3.73	+1.7%
36	Nevada	3.7	+5.4%
37	New Mexico	3.23	+2.3%
38	West Virginia	2.99	+2.8%
39	Alaska	2.85	-2.4%
40	Idaho	2.71	+8.8%
41	Montana	2.53	+6.6%
42	New Hampshire	2.35	+2.9%
43	Maine	2.25	+3.2%
44	North Dakota	2.05	+9.3%
45	South Dakota	1.47	+7.9%
46	Delaware	1.45	+2.9%
47	Wyoming	1.45	+13.2%
48	Rhode Island	1.28	+0.8%
49	Vermont	1.24	+2.2%
50	Hawaii	1.18	-0%
51	District of Columbia	1.11	+4.6%

Other periods

About this ranking

Greenhouse gas emissions of a US state allocated to the commercial buildings and waste economic sector. Fuel burned in shops, offices and public buildings, refrigerants, and landfills and wastewater treatment, which EPA allocates to this sector. In million metric tons of CO2 equivalent: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases weighted by their 100-year global warming potentials (IPCC AR5), from the EPA inventory of US emissions by state, which allocates the national inventory to the states with the same methods for every state. Emissions are counted where they occur, so electricity is counted in the state that generates it, not the state that uses it.

The six economic sectors add up to state_ghg_emissions. EPA says these estimates are not official state data: a state's own inventory can differ because it uses other methods, data or scopes. Each annual edition recalculates the whole series back to 1990.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the states are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks by State. EPA greenhouse gas inventory by state: Commercial economic sector, million metric tons of CO2 equivalent. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/state-ghg-emissions-and-removals. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2025). EPA greenhouse gas inventory by state: Commercial economic sector, million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (US states by greenhouse gas emissions from commercial buildings and waste (EPA state inventory), 2022) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/state-ghg-emissions-and-removals

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EPA greenhouse gas inventory by state: Commercial economic sector, million metric tons of CO2 equivalent, US states by greenhouse gas emissions from commercial buildings and waste (EPA state inventory), 2022. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 23 Apr. 2025, https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/state-ghg-emissions-and-removals. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/state-ghg-emissions-commercial/us-states. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 2025. EPA greenhouse gas inventory by state: Commercial economic sector, million metric tons of CO2 equivalent. US states by greenhouse gas emissions from commercial buildings and waste (EPA state inventory), 2022. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/state-ghg-emissions-and-removals. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/state-ghg-emissions-commercial/us-states.

Harvard

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2025) EPA greenhouse gas inventory by state: Commercial economic sector, million metric tons of CO2 equivalent, US states by greenhouse gas emissions from commercial buildings and waste (EPA state inventory), 2022 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/state-ghg-emissions-and-removals, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/state-ghg-emissions-commercial/us-states (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

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Which state has the highest greenhouse gas emissions from commercial buildings and waste (EPA state inventory)?

California, with 40.11 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2022, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Which state has the lowest greenhouse gas emissions from commercial buildings and waste (EPA state inventory)?

District of Columbia, with 1.11 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2022.

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Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA greenhouse gas inventory by state: Commercial economic sector, million metric tons of CO2 equivalent. Retrieved 2026-10-12.